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France’s Christine Lagarde, who took over as head of the IMF in 2011 after Dominique Strauss-Khan stepped down, was summoned to appear before a court investigating alleged corruption during her time as a finance minister, her lawyer said on Thursday.

IMF chief Christine Lagarde is to be grilled by a special court investigating suspected corruption dating from her time as French finance minister, her lawyer said Thursday.

Lagarde, who took over at the International Monetary Fund in 2011 when the previous boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn stepped down over a sex scandal, has been ordered to appear before the court at the end of May.

She will have to answer allegations that she acted improperly in the handling of a financial dispute that resulted in around 400 million euros ($520m) being paid by the state to disgraced tycoon Bernard Tapie.

Prosecutors working for the Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR) – a body established to try cases of ministerial misconduct – suspect Tapie received favourable treatment in return for supporting Lagarde’s then boss, Nicolas Sarkozy, in the 2007 and 2012 presidential elections.

They have described Lagarde’s handling of the case as “questionable” and suggested she was partly responsible for “numerous anomalies and irregularities” which could lead to charges for complicity in fraud and misappropriation of public funds.

Lagarde’s Paris home was raided by CJR officials last month but she has not yet been charged with any crime. The IMF has stood by her and her lawyer insisted she would be cleared of any wrongdoing.

“As has been expected for several months, the court wishes to question Madame Lagarde,” her lawyer, Yves Repiquet, told AFP. “A hearing will be held at the end of May.

“Mme Lagarde will finally have the opportunity to provide the court with explanations and clarifications that will exonerate her of any criminal responsibility.”

The investigation is centred on Lagarde’s 2007 decision to ask a panel of judges to arbitrate in a dispute between Tapie and Credit Lyonnais – the collapsed, partly state-owned bank – over his 1993 sale of sports group Adidas.

The arbitration resulted in the payout to Tapie, a former politician and businessman who went to prison for match-fixing during his time as president of France’s biggest football club, Olympique Marseille.

Nothing will be accomplished, even if they find her culpable of this crime. She will just be replaced by yet another of the same. When she took over for the rapist Kahn I was hopeful that things would finally proceed. The very day they ransacked her living quarters was the day she was said to get the ball rolling on the restructure of world currency announcement. Not to hard to see through the smoke now a days.